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			<h1>If only people could work to help one another instead of exploit one another ...</h1>
			<p>Day 00594: Friday, 2016 October 21</p>
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	Current countdowns:
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	<li>249 scheme-specific <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>-parsing classes to write and add to <a href="https://git.vola7ileiax4ueow.onion/y.st./include.d/releases">include.d</a></li>
	<li>1 free elective left in my associate degree program</li>
	<li>4 free electives left in my bachelor degree program</li>
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	My $30 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> per month T-Mobile plan ended this morning, so it was time to put into use the $20 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> per month plan that I had to argue with T-Mobile support to even get started.
	Due to the workarounds that the T-Mobile representative that finally helped had to use because of strange limitations in their system, I ended up with a gratis week of service that had to be used right away.
	After that though, I didn&apos;t have to start my paid service immediately.
	I got that started today, though the data-only plans from T-Mobile have to be managed through a second, obnoxious website instead of through the main account-management website&apos;s interface.
	It was a pain to get automatic payments set up (which are required for the inexpensive plan that I&apos;m now using), due to the website constantly logging me off.
	I think that instead of cookies, this stupid website is using the <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address of the client as the session identifier, which of course results in problems when someone isn&apos;t using a static <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address.
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	Today was mostly a lazy day for me, and I only worked on my remaining discussion assignment and graded the six essays assigned to me for grading this week.
	I didn&apos;t do any other schoolwork today.
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	Globalization certainly brings both positive and negative consequences, but I think for the most part, there are more positives than negatives.
	Most if not all of the truly negative consequences can be avoided, however, the right people need to be made care about the situation.
	The problem is that the people that are doing the most damage and/or are in the best positions for setting things right are the exact people that profit the most from things going poorly.
	Large companies exploit private citizens, especially the private citizens in poor countries that can&apos;t do anything about it.
	For example, mitigating the spread of disease would be a lot easier with less expensive medications.
	However, medical companies patent their treatments so that they can engage in steep price markup.
	People in poorer countries can&apos;t afford to be treated and charitable organizations can&apos;t afford large quantities of these drugs.
	Large, international organizations such as the <abbr title="World Intellectual Property Organisation">WIPO</abbr> represent the fact that globalization is spreading some of the worst laws from the western world.
	Again, this could be fought, but the people that profit most from so-called intellectual &quot;property&quot; profit too much from this sort of idea-hoarding, and in gaining all those funds, they have enough money to fight on behalf of keeping those laws, spreading them further, and making them worse.
	What we need to do is promote the idea that we, as a race, should work to improve the lives of the less fortunate instead of padding our bottom lines to obscenely-high levels.
	The big players in the field could easily fix the problem, but we can&apos;t write ourselves off as being helpless to fix things.
	Large corporations get their money from us little people.
	We need to pressure companies to do the right thing, and when that doesn&apos;t work, we need to vote with our respective currencies by purchasing from different companies that actually <strong>*will*</strong> do the right thing.
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	The negative consequences could easily be controlled if humankind worked together with one another instead of trying to exploit one another, but unfortunately, I don&apos;t see that happening within my lifetime.
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	It seems that we&apos;re headed to Gresham tomorrow, so I don&apos;t expect to be very productive on the homework front.
	If I&apos;d known before tonight, I might have put in a bit more effort today, but it should be fine regardless.
	This is a wind-down period at school, and there&apos;s still plenty of time to complete what little homework that I do have.
	I&apos;ve downloaded my reading material for the week, and I&apos;m hoping to find the time to get through at least some of it while I&apos;m out of town.
	One of the pages maliciously discriminates against <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr> users by outright blocking us, so I&apos;ve not linked to it and wasn&apos;t able to download it for later reading.
	There&apos;s also a set of videos behind one of the links below, but I have enough trouble trying to get the weekly <span title="Globalization">POLS 1503</span> to work as-is, so I didn&apos;t even attempt to download them for use while I&apos;m out.
	Besides, watching noisy videos doesn&apos;t seem like the best idea when I&apos;m not studying in seclusion.
	I&apos;ll try to watch them later.
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewPlaylist.aspx?AssignmentID=U2LDB9">Films On Demand - View Playlist</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharing.org/information-centre/articles/aid-debt-and-development-overview">Aid, debt and development: an overview | Share The World&apos;s Resources (STWR)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sharing.org/why-nations-need-to-share/global-poverty-inequality">Global poverty and inequality | Share The World&apos;s Resources (STWR)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quickmba.com./mgmt/7hab/">7 Habits of Highly Effective People</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mindtools.com/page6.html">Attention Required! | CloudFlare</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.secretchanges.com./how-to-write-your-success-story.html">How To Write Your Success Story</a></li>
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<p>
	My voting ballot arrived today in the mail.
	I&apos;ll probably put off voting until we get home though.
	I don&apos;t really want to deal with voting on the road or at Alyssa and Cyrus&apos; apartment.
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	It seems that my mother wants to move into a house that&apos;s being foreclosed upon, but it&apos;s in major need of some maintenance.
	If this works out, I&apos;ll be dealing with work, school, moving, and house cleanup/repair at once.
	That&apos;s not really going to be fun, but I&apos;ll try my best to make it work.
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	My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
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